A raw coming-of-age story

Perhaps fledgling author Dagmara Dominczyk intended irony when christening her debut novel The Lullaby of Polish Girls. Readers expecting a tender coming-of-age story should be warned that Dominczyk’s brutally raw narrative is less a soothing lullaby than a gut-wrenching ballad of heartbreak and healing amongst three childhood friends in a small town in Poland in the early 1980s....